G-bain-separator



SEEBOLD.

Grain Separator. No. 25,677. I I

Patented Oct. 4, 1859.

772211/666 O aZQ W f UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB SE-EBOLD, OF NEWV BERLIN, PENNSYLVANIA.

GRAIN-SEPARATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 25,677, dated October 4, 1859.

To all whom 'it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, JACOB SEEBoLD, of New Berlin, in the county of Unionand State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inGrain-Separators; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawing, forming part of this specification, in the severalfigures of which similar characters of reference denote the same oart.

1 The figure represents a side view of the machine.

The nature of my invention consists in attaching to the thresher aperforated separator by means of a rocking frame, or shaft having an armon each side to which the separator is fastened, the arm on one side islonger and has a slot, to which is attached by a pin through the slot, arod connecting with a wheel in front of the thresher. The separator issupported at the other end on a similar rocking frame attached to it bytwo short arms and having a spiral spring extending from one arm of theframe to the separator to assist in the movement of the separator.

The details are as follows:

In the drawing, A is the thresher, B the separator supported at one endon rocking shaft 0 having a slotted arm 6 which is connected by rod d towheel W, the slot allow 'ing it to be moved along the arm I) andincreasing or lessening the rapidity of the motion of the separator, fis the rocking frame on which the other. end of the separator rests, andS is the spiral spring. So that the revolution of wheel WV gives areciprocating movement to the separator by means of its rod connection(Z with the arm 6 of shaft 0 to which the separator is attached, the

witnesses.

JACOB SEEBOLD. Witnesses:

S. HERMANY, J 12., E. SMITH.

